Extinguisher



Feb- 24, 1942 A. H. sMEBY 21,274,349

EXTINGUXSHER Filed Aug. 29, 1959 INVEN TOR ,XM/s ATTORNEY.

Patented Feb. 24, 1942 EXTINGUISHER Adolph H. Smeby, Los Angeles, Calif., assignor to Jay B. Hinson, Hartsdale, N .Y Y.

Application August 29, 1939, serial No. 292,372 2 claims. (ci. TS1-237) This invention relates to extinguishers and is herein disclosed in some detail as a cigarette extinguisher in an attractive form, as including k an ash tray, and as adapted to be made of stamped parts and sold at a very low price.`

The menace of the lighted stubs `of discarded cigarettes has been increasing for years, and many types of receivers have been devised for use in clubs, homes, hotels and elsewhere, but many of these receivers are simply metalv or porcelain saucers, often ornamental, for retaining the glowing stubs until lthey burn out and then retaining all the burned stumps.

Such receivers are not always at hand, and even if they are the glowing cigarettes they retain are often offensive and always a menace. In a travelling automobileA a mere receiver is a menace, and, moreover, is not always convenient, with the result that sixty percent of the forest fires are said to have been started by the stubs of unextinguished cigarettes. v

According to the present invention the fore `going and other difficulties, objections and dangers are overcome, by providing a positive extinguisher for the cigarette, and yet a device whose use is obvious, natural and convenient.

In the form shown, the end of the glowing cigarette stub is inserted in a sleeve by pushing it with the ngers, and the sleeve yields, so that the fingers naturally push the cigarette guided by the sleeve against a .projecting point as of a conoidal member with the result that the cigarette end is pinched against the wall of the` sleeve extinguishing the sparks.

When the finger is withdrawn the sleeve springs back, and the cigarette end is withdrawn, any ashes falling into a cup or other receiver.

Other features and advantages appear.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a top View of one form of the in- I vention.

Figure 2 is a sectional view on lineZ-Z of Figure 1.y y

Figure 3 is a similar view showing a cigarette being extinguished. t

The extinguisher shown includes a base IIJ, on

n which a light U-shaped resilient strap II is shown as centrally mounted by one end I2. The opposite free end I3 of the strap II is shown as carrying a vertically mounted metal sleeve I4 a little larger than a standard cigarette and a fraction of an inch long.

To extinguish a cigarette, the cigarette is held in the usual manner by the ngers and its glowthe fingers strike the annular horizontally projecting upper edge I5 of thev sleeve.

Then the cigarette and sleeve move downwardwill hereinafter ly together until the glowing end of the cigarette encounters a blunt upper point I6 as of a conoidal member I1. -Further downward movement of the fingers pinches the cigarette outwards against the sleeve wall, cutting off the oxygen needed for combustion, and holding it so that the iingers crush the body of the cigarette down upon it. In addition, the member I1 may be solid metal, thus chilling any glowing sparks and completing the extinguishing.

In the form shown, the member I1 carries at its base a threaded extension I8 which passes through the base IU and is shown as drawn down by a nut I9, thus firmly holding both the member I'I and the end I2 of the strap II, because the strap is shown as held by the member I'I against the base I0.v i

The base I 0 is shown ashavlng a boss 20 at the center, so that ashes within it tend to fall away from the member I'I, and `also holding the nut I9 clear of any table the base may rest upon. The outer edge of the base is turned up at ZI so the base forms a closed cup` for holding the extinguished stubs and ashes, and may also form a rest for lighted cigarettes.

, In fmany cases l the cigarette does not slip through the collar or' sleeve I 4 but catches it when it is inserted and carries the collar down so that the glowing end of the cigarette almost immediately strikes the point I5 of the member I'I, and forces the body of the cigarette outward, pinching it between the member I1 and the collar I4.

In Figure 3 the cigarette is shown held approximately a full half inch back of the burning edge of the wrapper, most of the ashes having fallen off as shown.

AHaving thus described certain embodiments of the invention, what is claimed is:`

1. A cigarette extinguisher including a sleeve a little larger than a cigarette, a pointed member facing the open end of the sleeve and expandy between the base and the sleeve and thereby exing end pushed downward into the sleeve until l tinguish it, a fixed mount for the pointed member, and a resilient mounting for the sleeve so that it is adapted to move with the cigarette to eiect the extinguishing of the cigarette.v

ADOLPH H. sMEBY, 

